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Alan Dean Foster, Narrated by: Set during the year 2145, this novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront a cityscape in which nature is on the rampage and giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely compete for domination.

I found myself annoyed at how quickly people started raping and pillaging after like a day of the. ``The Death of Grass'' also stands as an introduction to the future world as portrayed in the recently published ``The Second Sleep by Robert Harris. M. R. Carey. Isherwood Williams returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2019. I would say that if Tolkien were alive today, me and him would disagree on what constitutes good science fiction, but that would come down only to a question of personal preference. It follows the fortunes of John Custace and his family as they make a perilous journey to his brother's farm, to escape London, where food shortages and rioting are rife.

A viral strain has attacked rice crops in East Asia, causing massive famine; soon a mutation appears that infects the staple crops of West Asia and Europe, such as wheat and barley, threatening a famine engulfing the whole of the Old World, while Australasia and the Americas attempt to impose rigorous quarantine to exclude the virus. Mike Grady, By:

I first read ``The Death of Grass'' in the early 1970's when it was reprinted as a ``Science Fiction Classic.'' Along the way, they find they must sacrifice many of their morals in order to stay alive.

Definitely worth reading though, kind of a take on Day of the Triffids from the perspective of the "Bad-Guys". J R R Tolkien regarded this as one of the better works of science fiction, so I got it to see what he liked in SF.

Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. Perhaps some of my appreciation now comes from filling in those blanks.

This story is terrifying, and it is sad that one can imagine this would be a likely scenario given such events. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.

It is a small masterpiece.

Barbara Shelley, By:

John Dorney, As if ripped from today's headlines, governments react too slowly and the disease spreads too fast.

Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the 300-kilometer long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war.

$14.95 a month after 30 days. When watching humanitarian catastrophe from a distance we pity and think “if that happened here it would be different” forgetting that, in the end, we are all human and driven by the desire to live above all else.

John Wyndham, Narrated by:

There is a film adaptation, called, 'No blade of grass', which I have also reviewed, but I felt that it came nowhere near the despondent mood of the book, and a clever director could make a brilliant job of a remake, as it's a really good story. Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve.

John Birmingham, Narrated by:

But don't read the Intro first too many major plot points are reviled This is the story of a family and a growing band of followers as they try to make their way to a safe haven thru a virus ravaged England. Limited power.

The destruction of all grass-related species by the Chung-Li virus propels the plot, but in reality it is a distraction from the burden of this novel - the death of humanity.

The publisher's summary offers a useful guide to the plot and the comparisons with Day of the Triffids are obvious.

I relintantly had to toss this half way through which is shame because it seemed like a cool concept.

Christina Moore, By:

Tom Weiner, By: This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - “Alas, Babylon.” When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly.

I therefore rather think that it would have been better included as an afterword. Mankind must start again.... Matthew is a normal 11-year-old boy living with his parents and little sister in Surrey. Melbourne, Australia, is the only area whose citizens have not yet succumbed to the contamination. Unprepared begins in the hours before The Scourge takes hold.

``The Death of Grass'' also stands as an introduction to the future world as portrayed in the recently published ``The Second Sleep by Robert Harris.

Similar to his contemporary John Wyndham, Christopher's characters and attitudes are based in a parochial post-war middle-class sensibility and, like Wyndham's, are soured by a profoundly bleak view of humanity.

By: Nevil Shute, Narrated by: It's a classic.

The story of The Tripods was the basis of a popular BBC television series in the 1980s, where humanity has been conquered and enslaved by "the tripods", unseen alien entities that travel about in gigantic three-legged walking machines. This is anything but a young adult book.

Frighteningly similar to our times at present. Within weeks most of the global population is dead. Story is OK, read well by narrator.

Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam.

If you like end of the world science fiction, you will probably like this.

Essentially, unpleasant people doing horrible things with unseemly haste, this novel is like a parody of castaways descending into cannibalism ten minutes after being washed ashore.

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Frighteningly similar to our times at present. (There's implied rape and accepted commodification of a teenage girl, it's not "nice" story) Where it kind of falls short is the main character doesn't really seem thoughtful, he just kind of feels a bit carried along, with everyone but his sniper-"buddy" seeming utterly undemanding, I think a modern take might have expanded on these characters as they went along their journey to introduce a bit more dimension and humanity. Pat Frank, Narrated by: C. A. Fletcher.

Pat Frank, Narrated by: A book wholly about the human psyche and post-war British culture. Walter M. Miller Jr. Narrated by:

Shame about the movie and I'd rather see something like this redone on film than one of the many re-boots dowing the rounds.

Where does a person's loyalty lie? The Resistance charges them, now wearing realistic yet harmless caps, to infiltrate a Tripod city by competing in a sporting exhibition called "the Games" (very similar in nature to the Summer Olympics), in which the winners of the events are to be offered to the Tripods for service.

As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.

Louise Jameson,

The novel proper begins with a "prodrome" at 19mins 40 secs and I would therefore recommend that you speed forward to that and listen to the introduction at the end. Dour British post-Apocalyptic yarn originally written in 1956 by Tripods author John Christopher. Would you listen to The Death of Grass again? It is a thrilling and sensible work." It starts with the dogs. This story is terrifying, and it is sad that one can imagine this would be a likely scenario given such events.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2013.

I first read ``The Death of Grass'' in the early 1970's when it was reprinted as a ``Science Fiction Classic.'' Whilst his grim assessment may not necessarily be wrong, it, like the novel, leaves a bitter taste.

John Christopher, Narrated by:

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